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Issue: Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #12
Publication Date: April 1954
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Issues: #12 of 347 Issues (359 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/15/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 8, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June, 1954.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Hey Betty! Here's a problem on the law of gravity! Would you like to know why the apple fell for Newton?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Later redrawn for the cover of Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #63
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Gay Blades

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Doyle ?
Penciller(s): George Frese
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Betty conspires with a reluctant Jughead to break Archie and Veronica up at the ice skating pond.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Hunger Pains

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Samm Schwartz
Inker(s): Samm Schwartz
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Samm Schwartz
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Suzie
Character(s): Suzie; unidentified hobo
Synopsis: Suzie trades one-liners with a hobo looking for a handout.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The shop window in the first panel says "Samm's Hobby Shop". Several of the Suzie heads may be paste-ups of Dan DeCarlo's work.
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The Apple Chump-Ling

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Veronica
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: Archie swipes some apples from Jughead to give to Veronica so she can pass her Home Economics baking class.
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Pages: 3
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Packed Solid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wilbur
Character(s): Wilbur; Red; The Principal; Miss Gargle
Synopsis: The Principal conducts locker inspections and doesn't like what he finds.
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Insufferable Pals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Dink Travis
Synopsis: Veronica breaks a date with Archie to go out with another boy. Betty at first refuses to be Archie's second choice, but then decides to date him and take him to the same place Veronica is with the other boy.
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Vote Goat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Veronica wins a student vote for best dressed coed.
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Tomato Surprise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: When Jughead hears Betty and Veronica are buying fresh tomatoes for tomato sauce, he volunteers to make his family's special recipe sauce for them.
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A Short Sweet Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Woggon (signed)
Penciller(s): Bill Woggon (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Woggon (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Katy Keene
Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis
Synopsis: Katy is unable to be home in time to make dinner for Sis, so she allows her younger sibling to make a sandwich on her own.
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Pages: 1
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Wrong Guest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Edwards ?
Penciller(s): Joe Edwards
Inker(s): Joe Edwards
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Betty promises Jughead a steak dinner if he can deliver Archie to the same dinner.
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In Content Item: FlagB&V Friends Double Digest Magazine #237 [Direct Edition] published February 2014
as Wrong Guest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Credits from B&V Friends Double Digest #237.
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Stuff About Stars

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Anecdotes about movie stars.
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Pages: 2
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Ski Sick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Doyle ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lucey (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Terry Szenics
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Do you think Archie and Reggie are waiting for us at the top, Ronnie?
Synopsis: When the boys spurn the girls' request to show them how to ski, the girls decide to go skiing anyway. Only they go skiing down the expert slope, being filmed by a newsreel camera Reggie has set up to film them.
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In Content Item: FlagB&V Friends Double Digest Magazine #237 [Direct Edition] published February 2014
as Ski Sick [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Harry Lucey's signature is in the bottom right of the last story panel.
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Please Be Seated

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Veronica
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge tries to get Veronica to sit in the chair correctly while she talks to Archie over the phone.
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Pages: 1
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Feet First

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Edwards
Penciller(s): Joe Edwards
Inker(s): Joe Edwards
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Edwards
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Archie asks Betty when Veronica will go dancing with him again.
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No Help Wanted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Veronica wants to help Betty out, but there are some things she'd rather do herself.
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